African asylum seekers due at Holot detention center today

MKs to tour controversial center for first time since it opened.

The first orders issued a month ago by the Population, Immigration and Border Authority, instructing asylum seekers to report within 30 days to the Holot detention center, go into effect Sunday. The authority said that 65 Africans have been ordered to report to Holot, and that it was providing buses to take them from Tel Aviv to the center, which is located in the Negev.

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